Measuring private transfers between generations and gender: an application of national transfer accounts for Austria 2015

Few data sources provide information on private transfers between generations and gender. We use a novel approach based on the National Transfer Accounts methodology to estimate the value of intra-family transfers between generations by age, gender and parental status in Austria 2015. The paper cons...

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Published in:Empirica 2022, Vol.49 (3), p.573-599
Main Authors: Hammer, Bernhard, Prskawetz, Alexia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accounts
Age
Consumption
Disposable income
Econometrics
Economics
Economics and Finance
European Integration
Families & family life
Gender
Gender differences
Households
Industrial Organization
International Economics
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
Markets
Older people
Original Paper
Parental status
Parents & parenting
Public Finance
Women
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Summary:Few data sources provide information on private transfers between generations and gender. We use a novel approach based on the National Transfer Accounts methodology to estimate the value of intra-family transfers between generations by age, gender and parental status in Austria 2015. The paper considers monetary transfers together with transfers of consumption goods and transfers of services produced by non-market work. Our results show that parents use one third of their disposable income and up to four hours of daily non-market work for their children. The total size of the intra-family transfers corresponds to 38 per cent of primary income.
ISSN:0340-8744
1573-6911
1573-6911
DOI:10.1007/s10663-022-09542-z